Melanie Yates

  1) Can international whistleblowers qualify for US whistleblower rewards? Whistleblowers from any country – UK, China, Brazil, India, Malaysia and elsewhere – can qualify for a reward...

Phillips & Cohen is at the forefront in representing whistleblowers in claims filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. We recently won...

Phillips & Cohen’s expertise as whistleblower lawyers handling SEC and CFTC whistleblower cases is widely recognized in the media. Below are news articles with comments and observations by Phillips...

Sean McKessy in BNA Securities Law Daily, 12/23/16. “[Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy] took what he knew from previous SEC and corporate experience and dived right into the whistle-blower...

Dear Fellow Whistleblower: If you are reading this, I assume you are trying to decide whether to blow the whistle or you are looking for an attorney to represent you or both. I, too, was a whistleblower....

“US Accelerates Pursuit of Companies for FCPA Violations,” Erika A. Kelton, Forbes.com, 12/23/16. “Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s ‘Gutless Leadership’ Keeps Bank Mired...

Sean McKessy in The Mercury News, 12/16/16. Q: Tech firms maintain a lot of secrecy around their work – does that affect people’s willingness to blow the whistle to the SEC? [McKessy]: There...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 6, 2016 – Below are comments from Claire M. Sylvia, a partner at whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen LLP, regarding today’s Supreme Court decision on State...

Letter to the Editor by Erika Kelton published in The New York Times, 12/3/16. “Gretchen Morgenson’s column “A Win for a Whistle-Blower” (Fair Game, Nov. 27) captures the retaliation that employees...

WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2016 – Two Phillips & Cohen LLP whistleblower lawyers, Mary Louise Cohen and Erika Kelton, were selected to the 2017 Super Lawyers List for Washington, DC, by Super...